The ImproTech Paris - NYC 2012 workshop is dedicated to the exploration of the links between musical improvisation and digital technologies.

Gathering researchers and artists from both research & creation scenes, it favors the idea of using digital intelligence as a source of continuous and sophisticated creation, in a complex interaction with live musicians, as opposed to mere decorative digital effects.

in 2004 was held at ircam, during the 1st Sound and Music Computing Conference, a workshop on Improvisation and the Computer, that gathered the cream (as we say in french) of musicians and researchers operating in the field.
The event was a big success and it had a strong impact on the public, the musical scene - and on Ircam as well, by introducing, for the first time at that level, improvisaiton as a hot research topic. Following this, improvisation / technology became a legitimate field of investigation, for which it was possible for instance to obtain research grants through the National Researc Agency and the universities doctoral schools.
Above all, it was a wonderful opportunity to share an exceptional artistic and scientific moment. A trace of this moment is the DVD Contact that captures the performance by David Wessel and Roscoe Mitchell.

The idea of renewing the experience, this time in NYC, where many of the former participants came from, emerged more than once in passionate discussions about the present state of Improvisation involving digital technologies and media.

Eight years later, how did the technologies and the concepts of interaction evolve? what personalities have emerged since then on the impro/techno scene ? where's the research heading to ? etc.